Alex is growing up pretty fast, latest pic of him helping mummy clean the kitchen:

He amazes the wife's dad with his ability to turn on a PC, navigate to Cbeebies or Disney and play the games all on his own. Not only that, but if you ask him to turn the PC off, he closes down the individual windows and then opens the start menu and clicks Shutdown. He's not even 3 yet!

He's a right little bossy boots at the moment too. Tells people where they have to sit, and what they have to do. He's very much into the new Cbeebies show Tree Fu Tom, getting up and doing the dance moves that the show has, at times he grabs my hand and tells me that I have to do the dance too. Well, I say he tells me, he's still spouting his own brand of gibberish, bless him.

He amazes the wife's dad with his ability to turn on a PC, navigate to Cbeebies or Disney and play the games all on his own. Not only that, but if you ask him to turn the PC off, he closes down the individual windows and then opens the start menu and clicks Shutdown. He's not even 3 yet!

Elliot, 7 months now, stood up on his own for the first time yesterday. I was stunned. Walked into his room upon hearing him wake up and he had somehow pulled himself up and was stood grinning at me as I walked in.

Time to lower his cot methinks.

He still isn't crawling forwards, but has mastered backwards to a fine art. He's pretty nippy now.

She's absolutely fine. She vaguely knows that she lives in America now, she goes to a proper school 3 days a week in lieu of play school and is coming along in leaps and bounds. She's ecstatic that we have a pool in the back garden, and in about 8 weeks she's gone from armbands to a float to a noodle thing to swimming to swimming underwater.

Loads for her to do, and the sort of community we live in has a play park every 100 yards, and she seems perfectly content that nana & grandpa only appear on the computer to talk now.